SEH Equivalent in Linux or How do I handle OS Signals (like SIGSERV) and yet keep continuing

I am currently working on a Unit Testing framework where users can create Test Cases and register with the framework.

I would also like to ensure that if any of the User Test Code causes a Crash, it should not Crash the entire framework but should be flagged as failed. To Make this work, I wrote up the following Code so that I can run the Users Code within the Sandbox function

This works perfectly on Windows, but I would like my framework to be portable and in order to be so, I would like to ensure a similar functionality for posix environments.

I know C Signal Handlers can intercept an OS Signal, but to translate the Signal Handling Mechanism to an SEH framework has certain challenges that I am unable to solve

How to continue execution even when my program receives a signal?

How to Jump the control of execution from the failed location to a block (similar to except) that I can use for error handling?

How can I clean-up the resources?

Another possibility I was thinking in running the User Test Code on a separate thread with its own signal handler and terminate the thread from the signal handler, but again not sure whether this can possibly work.

So before I think beyond, I would like the help of the community if they are aware of a better solution to tackle this problem/situation.

Continuing is not really advisable, as this would be undefined behaviour, i.e. your memory might be corrupted, which might let other test cases fail as well (or even terminate your whole process prematurely).

Would it be possible to run the test cases one by one as a sub process? This way, you could check the exit status and will detect if it terminated cleanly, with an error or due to a signal.

Running the test cases in a separate thread will have the same problem: you do not have memory protection between your test cases and the code driving the test cases.

The suggested approach would be:

fork() to create a child process.

In the child process, you execve() your test case. This could be the same binary with different arguments to select a certain test case).

In the parent process, you call waitpid() to wait for the termination of the test case. You received the pid from the fork() call in the parent process.

If you need timeouts for your test cases, you can also install a handler for SIGCHLD. If the timeout elapses first, kill() the child process. Be aware that you may only call certain functions from signal handlers.

Just a further note: execve() is not really required. You can just proceed and call your specified testcase directly.